Steven Yong's Weblog

Recently get to know about a true story which I find it is pretty interesting. A New York-based software company FogCreek has finished developing a product, named Copilot by a team of four summer interns in less than four months of time. This product (or service) allows people to help their friends, relatives, and customers fix their computer problems by connecting to their computers via the Internet. This story reminds me about what are all the interns doing in the local company which hired them. Why are they given the usual dull and unimportant tasks of an internship program?